Salvage – from wreck to cargo – Star Citizen Academy

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BalduursGATE Citizen Hub Academy Mission Control Player Help Tactical Map Pirate Ops Diplomacy Downloads Deutsch ACADEMY SALVAGE SALVAGE – FROM WRECK TO CARGO BalduursGATE Field Manual · Academy · Edition 1 SalvageLevel: Beginner Salvage – from wreck to cargo Ten steps from target to sale with the matching control functions. The functions are sourced – the sequence itself is still a working sketch. Valid from patch 4.10.0 Game data version 4.10.0-hotfix (55227) Version 1 Updated 2026-09-11 Review statusSourced Every control function and game object used exists in the current game version. The statements come from the sources listed. Review path and sources Editorial in-game review Nobody from the editorial team has flown it in game yet. The information comes from the sources listed below. What you will learn Know the steps from wreck to cargo. Find the matching functions for each step. Prerequisites GuideSalvage – BasicsSourced What this is about Ten steps from wreck to cargo. The control functions are sourced – their names are as in the game data.^q1 The order and everything that happens in game is a working sequence and not yet checked. $Flow chart with eight boxes in two rows; scan, scrape and fracture solid, the rest dashed.$ DiagramSalvage workflow – overview UNCONFIRMEDEight stations: find, scan, scrape, fracture, collect, cargo, transport, sale. Solid: functions or parts exist in our data (scanning mode, scraper modules, fracture tool). Dashed: no data yet. The order has not been checked in game.Own graphic · claude-entwurf, 2026-09-11 1. Preparation Salvage ships according to the slot data: Vulture, Reclaimer, Fortune, MOTH, Salvation.^q2 Put this guide's functions on keys or your Stream Deck. If something goes wrong: the MAYDAY key in the BalduursGATE client sends a distress call with your location to the crew. 2. Find a target Where wrecks are found is not in our data. The game data lists salvage entries, but no locations.^q3 3. Scanning Toggle Scanning Operator Mode, Increase/Decrease scanning angle and Activate Ping – details in Scanning – Basics.^q1 4. Positioning For positioning in front of the wreck there are general flight functions such as Spacebrake and decoupled mode.^q1 Distance and attitude to the wreck are not sourced. 5. Salvage mode Toggle Salvage Operator Mode is bound in the default profile; Set Salvage Operator Mode switches it on directly.^q1 Plus Salvage Mode Gimbal (Toggle) and Salvage Mode Gimbal Reset.^q1 training.salvage-mode.01BeginnerUNCONFIRMED Goal Switch salvage mode on and check the controls. Preparation In a salvage ship in open space, no wreck in front of the ship. Task Switch salvage mode on. Change focus between all heads, left and right, toggle salvage gimbal mode, reset it and leave salvage mode again. Note what changes on the display. Success criterion You can trigger every function and leave salvage mode again. Partner not required Functions needed Toggle Salvage Operator Mode Focus all salvage heads Focus left salvage head Focus right salvage head Salvage Mode Gimbal (Toggle) Salvage Mode Gimbal Reset 6. Hull scraping Fire with Toggle Fire Focused, Left or Right; focus with Focus all salvage heads or per head; Increase/Decrease Beam Spacing; cycle modifiers.^q1 More: Hull scraping explained. 7. Structural salvage / fracturing Focus Fracture tool, Toggle Fire Fracture, Focus Disintegration tool, Toggle Fire Disintegrate and Cycle Structural Salvage Modes.^q1 More: Structural salvage & fracturing. When breaking up makes more sense than scraping is not sourced. 8. Pick up material How the material gets on board we are still checking in game. 9. Organise cargo Tractor Beam Vehicle - Increase/Decrease Distance and Request Cargo Loading are in the controls.^q1 More: Cargo handling in salvage. 10. Transport / sale Continue in Salvage – transport & sale. The ships in detail: Vulture, Reclaimer. Checklist Salvage mode, firing and focus are within reach. Increase/decrease beam spacing is bound – it is not in the default profile. MAYDAY in the BalduursGATE client is set up. On your Stream Deck These functions belong to this topic. Which key that is for you is shown by the BalduursGATE plugin based on your own bindings – on purpose, no key is listed here. Profile page FLIGHT Enable / Disable decoupled mode Profile page FLIGHT MOVEMENT Spacebrake Profile page SCANNING Toggle Scanning Operator Mode Set Scanning Operator Mode Increase Scanning Angle Decrease Scanning Angle MFD - Set Page - Scanning (Short Press) MFD - Set Page - Scanning (Long Press) Activate Ping (Hold & Release) Profile page POWER Toggle Power - All Toggle Power - Thrusters Toggle Power - Shields Toggle Power - Weapons Profile page SALVAGE Toggle Salvage Operator Mode Set Salvage Operator Mode Toggle Fire Focused Toggle Fire Left Toggle Fire Right Toggle Fire Fracture Toggle Fire Disintegrate Focus all salvage heads Focus left salvage head Focus right salvage head Focus Fracture tool Focus Disintegration tool Salvage Mode Gimbal (Toggle) Salvage Mode Gimbal Reset Increase Beam Spacing Decrease Beam Spacing Cycle Focused Salvage Modifiers Cycle Left Salvage Modifiers Cycle Right Salvage Modifiers Cycle Structural Salvage Modes Profile page TRACTOR Tractor Beam Vehicle- Increase Distance Tractor Beam Vehicle - Decrease Distance Profile page CARGO Request Cargo Loading Profile page BalduursGATE Live MAYDAY – distress call The profile page CARGO, TRACTOR is part of OMC Stream Deck 0.9.0. Go to the Download Center → Read next Guide · See alsoVulture – solo salvage guideSourced Guide · See alsoReclaimer – crew salvage guideSourced Guide · Continues inHull scraping explainedSourced Guide · See alsoStructural salvage & fracturingSourced Guide · See alsoCargo handling in salvageSourced Guide · Builds on thisCrew salvageSourced Guide · Builds on thisOptimising solo salvageSourced Mission · Links hereTEMPLATE · SALVAGE RUN (VULTURE)Sourced Guide · Mentioned in the textSalvage – transport & saleSourced Guide · Mentioned in the textScanning – BasicsSourced Guide · More in SalvageLarge wrecksSourced Guide · More in SalvageGroup rolesSourced Guide · More in SalvageSalvage components explainedSourced Guide · More in SalvageSalvage materialsSourced Guide · More in SalvageSalvage: risk and rewardSourced Links are stored in the hub entry – the index computes the reverse direction. No address is hard-coded here. ← Back to the Academy Sources q1GAME DATAACTION-MASTER – Steuerungsfunktionen aus defaultProfile.xml und global.ini (SC-4.10-ACTION-MASTER.json)Build 4.10.0-hotfix (55227)Namen, Gruppen, Auslöseart und Standardbelegung (belegt ja/nein) gelesen – keine Tasten. q2GAME DATAChronist – Steckplätze und Werksbestückung je Schiff (chronist/steckplaetze.json)Build 4.10.0-hotfix (55227) q3GAME DATAChronist – Auszug aus der Data.p4k: Schiffsbauteile, Rohstoffe, Raffinerieverfahren, Baupläne, Orte (chronist/index.json)Build 4.10.0-hotfix (55227)Gelesen, nicht gedeutet. Namen teils aus der deutschen global.ini, teils englisch. Patch and version information Valid from 4.10.0 Valid until open Game data version 4.10.0-hotfix (55227) Version 1 · EN Version 1 Review entries none Identifier `guide.salvage-ablauf` In the learning path: Salvage learning path LEVEL 1 BASICS Salvage – BasicsSourced Salvage workflow hereSourced Scanning / finding a targetSourced LEVEL 2 SHIPS & EQUIPMENT VultureSourced ReclaimerSourced Salvage componentsSourced Tractor / cargoSourced LEVEL 3 SALVAGING Hull scrapingSourced Structural salvage / fracturingSourced Material recoverySourced Cargo handlingSourced LEVEL 4 LOGISTICS StorageSourced TransportSourced SaleSourced LEVEL 5 ADVANCED Solo optimisationSourced Crew salvageSourced Large wrecksSourced Group rolesSourced Risk and rewardSourced Where the information comes from Every statement carries a mark showing its source. Without a source it shows as “not yet confirmed” – visible, not hidden. Source marks in this guide OFFICIALOfficially confirmed0Published by CIG (patch notes, support, Comm-Link, staff). GAME DATAFrom game data10Read from the game files – measured, not explained. TESTEDTested by us0Tried by us in game, with date and patch. COMMUNITYCommunity report0Reported by players or community projects. UNCONFIRMEDNot yet confirmed6No source. Take with care. Player feedback Not connected yet. Player feedback will be counted here later – it never replaces the editorial review and can never raise a guide to “confirmed”.

What you will learn

Know the steps from wreck to cargo.
Find the matching functions for each step.

Prerequisites

GuideSalvage – BasicsSourced

What this is about

Ten steps from wreck to cargo. The control functions are sourced – their names are as in the game data.^q1 The order and everything that happens in game is a working sequence and not yet checked.

Flow chart with eight boxes in two rows; scan, scrape and fracture solid, the rest dashed. — DiagramSalvage workflow – overview UNCONFIRMEDEight stations: find, scan, scrape, fracture, collect, cargo, transport, sale. Solid: functions or parts exist in our data (scanning mode, scraper modules, fracture tool). Dashed: no data yet. The order has not been checked in game.Own graphic · claude-entwurf, 2026-09-11

1. Preparation

Salvage ships according to the slot data: Vulture, Reclaimer, Fortune, MOTH, Salvation.^q2 Put this guide's functions on keys or your Stream Deck.

If something goes wrong: the MAYDAY key in the BalduursGATE client sends a distress call with your location to the crew.

2. Find a target

Where wrecks are found is not in our data. The game data lists salvage entries, but no locations.^q3

3. Scanning

Toggle Scanning Operator Mode, Increase/Decrease scanning angle and Activate Ping – details in Scanning – Basics.^q1

4. Positioning

For positioning in front of the wreck there are general flight functions such as Spacebrake and decoupled mode.^q1

Distance and attitude to the wreck are not sourced.

5. Salvage mode

Toggle Salvage Operator Mode is bound in the default profile; Set Salvage Operator Mode switches it on directly.^q1 Plus Salvage Mode Gimbal (Toggle) and Salvage Mode Gimbal Reset.^q1

training.salvage-mode.01BeginnerUNCONFIRMED

Goal: Switch salvage mode on and check the controls.
Preparation: In a salvage ship in open space, no wreck in front of the ship.
Task: Switch salvage mode on. Change focus between all heads, left and right, toggle salvage gimbal mode, reset it and leave salvage mode again. Note what changes on the display.
Success criterion: You can trigger every function and leave salvage mode again.
Partner: not required
Functions needed: Toggle Salvage Operator Mode
Focus all salvage heads
Focus left salvage head
Focus right salvage head
Salvage Mode Gimbal (Toggle)
Salvage Mode Gimbal Reset

6. Hull scraping

Fire with Toggle Fire Focused, Left or Right; focus with Focus all salvage heads or per head; Increase/Decrease Beam Spacing; cycle modifiers.^q1 More: Hull scraping explained.

7. Structural salvage / fracturing

Focus Fracture tool, Toggle Fire Fracture, Focus Disintegration tool, Toggle Fire Disintegrate and Cycle Structural Salvage Modes.^q1 More: Structural salvage & fracturing.

When breaking up makes more sense than scraping is not sourced.

8. Pick up material

How the material gets on board we are still checking in game.

9. Organise cargo

Tractor Beam Vehicle - Increase/Decrease Distance and Request Cargo Loading are in the controls.^q1 More: Cargo handling in salvage.

10. Transport / sale

Continue in Salvage – transport & sale. The ships in detail: Vulture, Reclaimer.

Checklist

Salvage mode, firing and focus are within reach.
Increase/decrease beam spacing is bound – it is not in the default profile.
MAYDAY in the BalduursGATE client is set up.

On your Stream Deck

These functions belong to this topic. Which key that is for you is shown by the BalduursGATE plugin based on your own bindings – on purpose, no key is listed here.

Profile page FLIGHT

Enable / Disable decoupled mode

Profile page FLIGHT MOVEMENT

Spacebrake

Profile page SCANNING

Toggle Scanning Operator Mode
Set Scanning Operator Mode
Increase Scanning Angle
Decrease Scanning Angle
MFD - Set Page - Scanning (Short Press)
MFD - Set Page - Scanning (Long Press)
Activate Ping (Hold & Release)

Profile page POWER

Toggle Power - All
Toggle Power - Thrusters
Toggle Power - Shields
Toggle Power - Weapons

Profile page SALVAGE

Toggle Salvage Operator Mode
Set Salvage Operator Mode
Toggle Fire Focused
Toggle Fire Left
Toggle Fire Right
Toggle Fire Fracture
Toggle Fire Disintegrate
Focus all salvage heads
Focus left salvage head
Focus right salvage head
Focus Fracture tool
Focus Disintegration tool
Salvage Mode Gimbal (Toggle)
Salvage Mode Gimbal Reset
Increase Beam Spacing
Decrease Beam Spacing
Cycle Focused Salvage Modifiers
Cycle Left Salvage Modifiers
Cycle Right Salvage Modifiers
Cycle Structural Salvage Modes

Profile page TRACTOR

Tractor Beam Vehicle- Increase Distance
Tractor Beam Vehicle - Decrease Distance

Profile page CARGO

Request Cargo Loading

Profile page BalduursGATE Live

MAYDAY – distress call

The profile page CARGO, TRACTOR is part of OMC Stream Deck 0.9.0. Go to the Download Center →

Sources

q1GAME DATAACTION-MASTER – Steuerungsfunktionen aus defaultProfile.xml und global.ini (SC-4.10-ACTION-MASTER.json)Build 4.10.0-hotfix (55227)Namen, Gruppen, Auslöseart und Standardbelegung (belegt ja/nein) gelesen – keine Tasten.
q2GAME DATAChronist – Steckplätze und Werksbestückung je Schiff (chronist/steckplaetze.json)Build 4.10.0-hotfix (55227)
q3GAME DATAChronist – Auszug aus der Data.p4k: Schiffsbauteile, Rohstoffe, Raffinerieverfahren, Baupläne, Orte (chronist/index.json)Build 4.10.0-hotfix (55227)Gelesen, nicht gedeutet. Namen teils aus der deutschen global.ini, teils englisch.

Patch and version information

Valid from: 4.10.0
Valid until: open
Game data version: 4.10.0-hotfix (55227)
Version: 1 · EN Version 1
Review entries: none
Identifier: guide.salvage-ablauf

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